Australian viewers have a bigger appetite for reality cooking shows than weight-loss programs, with Channel 7's My Kitchen Rules attracting 1.484 million viewers for its season three debut on Monday, making it the number one show nationally.
Hosted by Pete Evans and Manu Feildel, viewers were introduced to six of the 12 MKR teams competing for $250,000 at the first of the three-course meal challenges, including WA friends Angela Schlegel and Justine Matchitt, New Zealand team Simon and Meg and South Australia's Leigh and "Princess" Jennifer.
Her annoying habit of ending sentences with "yeah" has quickly become a catchcry.
In Perth, MKR drew an average 178,000 viewers to be the third most-watched show on Monday behind Seven News with 216,000 and Today Tonight with 192,000.
Nine's nerdy sitcom The Big Bang Theory continues to be a hit, attracting 1.349 million viewers to be the second most-watched show nationally - even the second repeat episode attracted more than a million viewers.
The premiere of celebrity weight-loss show Excess Baggage on Nine attracted 880,000 viewers nationally to rank 12th. It beat the long-running weight-loss show The Biggest Loser, which attracted 698,000 to come in 16th with its first weigh-in.
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